HackingFinancial ServicesFinanceStolen CredentialsCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountPHIHealth (basic)HighContained

Benefits Partner, LLC

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Severity

High

Discovered

Oct 9, 2024

Filed

Apr 7, 2025

To disclose

26 weeks

Affected

1,315state residents only

Linked

5 filings

Confidence

69%

Full breach record for Benefits Partner, LLC →

Benefits Partner, LLC dba Salus Group experienced unauthorized access to an employee's email account on October 9, 2024. The incident exposed personal information of approximately 1,315 Washington residents, including names, SSNs, driver's license numbers, financial account info, and health insurance data. Salus disabled the account, engaged forensic investigators, and began notifying affected individuals in March 2025, offering credit monitoring services.

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Washington clock✗ WA AG >90d26 weeks discovery → filing

⚠ occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.

Incident timeline

discovery → filing · 26 weeks / 180 days

Oct 9, 2024

Begins

Oct 9, 2024

Discovered

Apr 7, 2025

Filed

vs. sector median

+17 wks slower

This filing is one of 5 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Vermont State AGbd_10aac3957962cece2025-04-07Verified
Nebraska State AGbd_40d3769d82ef8e962025-04-07Verified
Massachusetts State AGbd_21d033e635fe3eb72025-04-08 · +1dVerified
Illinois State AGbd_71ad8b125e8f6fa02025-04-01 · +6dVerified

Name: Benefits Partner, LLC
norm: benefits partner

Name: Benefits Partner, LLC
norm: benefits partner
Industry: Financial Servicesllm

Discovered: Oct 9, 2024
Breach occurred: Oct 9, 2024
Undetected for: 0 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Mar 27, 2025
Affected individuals: 1,315state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountPHIHealth (basic)
Data elements: NameSocial Security numberDriver's licence numberFinancial account numberHealth insurance ID
WA-stated cause: Cyberattack
WA-stated duration: lifecycle 0dexposure 0d
WA-stated discovery: Found while ongoingContained same day
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1078 Valid AccountsT1114 Email Collection
Threat actor: External
Initial access: valid_credentials

During the incident: Disabled the account
Reset the employee’s password
Began an investigation with the assistance of a third-party forensic firm
Conducted a comprehensive review of the contents of the email account
Began notifying applicable data owners
Began mailing notification letters via USPS First-Class mail
Offering individuals a complimentary membership to credit monitoring and identity theft protection services through Kroll
Established a dedicated, toll-free call center
Changes made: Made security enhancements to its email environment
Implemented additional security controls in our email environment
Providing employees with further training on how to identify and avoid suspicious emails
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Time to disclose: 26 weeks(180 days from discovery to filing)
Compliance flags: WA AG >90d
Discovery-date grounding: occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 5 filings · 5 states

View merged incident ↗

Illinois State AGApr 1 · first

Vermont State AG+6d

Nebraska State AG+6d

Washington State AG+6d · this page

Massachusetts State AG+7d

Pattern: first filing Apr 1 (IL), last Apr 8 (MA) — a 7-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claim

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filingThis record

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

Source URL: https://agportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/databreach/BreachA32948.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Apr 7, 2025
Raw hash: 1af8a8c613548c9b06ae99416c7626117f5f18d21e558417eaba32cc0c8e3c39

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (4) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityBenefits Partner, LLC

Victim entityBenefits Partner, LLC

Incidentdiscovered Oct 9, 2024

Stated responseDisabled the account

ComplianceWA AG >90d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceagportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com